About Michael Loui

Michael C. Loui is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and University Distinguished Teacher-Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His interests include computational complexity theory, professional ethics, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. He serves as Editor of Journal of Engineering Education and as a member of the editorial boards of College Teaching and Accountability in Research. He is a Carnegie Scholar and an IEEE Fellow. Professor Loui was Associate Dean of the Graduate College at Illinois from 1996 to 2000. He directed the theory of computing program at the National Science Foundation from 1990 to 1991. He earned the Ph.D. at M.I.T. in 1980.

(Photo of Michael Loui)I am a professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses. Collaborating with students and faculty colleagues, I conducted research in computational complexity theory, ethics in engineering and computing, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and engineering education. From 2012 to 2017, I served as the editor of the Journal of Engineering Education. From 2014 to 2019, I held the Dale and Suzi Gallagher Professorship in Engineering Education at Purdue University.